Any YC startups using this (and willing to talk about it)?
We haven't launched yet so no startups are using it yet. If anyone is interested please ping me directly at ben@leanlaunchlab.com.
While communication with my investors and advisors is really important, I really hope this (or a related) tool can help guide the customer development process. I would definitely pay for that (And signed up for the beta hoping that will be the case).
Hi SoftwareMaven. The tool will definitely help guide the customer development process. One of the core features is an interactive canvas diagram that allows you to enter your hypothesis and keep track of which ones are validated.
I'm imagining interactive versions of many of the diagrams / figures from Blank's book "4 Steps the Epiphany". Just being able to enter your own text into the various customer development diagrams is a nice and simple idea. Is that close to what you mean?
The business model canvas diagram is the only diagram we're including for v1. You will be able to enter your own text in each box, and the system will save state so you can go back and forward in time to see how your business model has evolved.
Ash Maurya (author of Running Lean) is also working on something similar called Lean Canvas (http://leancanvas.com/)
I'll definitely be using this to blog about my new social media content discovery site I've been hacking at called http://upvot.es/.